Kamran Asdar Ali

WHY THE STUDENT PROTESTS MATTER

Do these protests across US and Europe signal a change in Western grassroots sentiment about Palestine and can they make a difference? Updated 19 May, 2024 12:01pm

PALESTINE: BREAKING THE STALEMATE

Why did Hamas attack Israel on October 7, a daring attack that precipitated the brutal ongoing Israeli onslaught on Gaza? Could Published 03 Dec, 2023 07:11am

NON-FICTION: THE FIGHT FOR A CITY’S SOUL

Arif Hasan’s writings on land and housing are an example of engaged scholarship, an effort to find ways to create a future city... Published 17 Apr, 2022 11:11am

TRIBUTE: UNSETTLING INTELLECTUAL COMFORT ZONES

On the third anniversary of her death, anthropoligist Kamran Asdar Ali recalls the work of Saba Mahmood, a provocative and... Updated 07 Mar, 2021 01:39pm

EXHIBITION: THE POLITICS OF ERASURE AND RECOVERY

Bani Abidi’s retrospective in Berlin pays homage to resilience and defiance in the face of subordination Published 01 Sep, 2019 07:27am

TRIBUTE: JOAN OF LAHORE

The Englishwoman who became an inalienable part of Pakistan’s leftist gatherings and, indeed, of the country’s history Published 11 Aug, 2019 07:06am

ESSAY: TOWARDS A POLITICS OF ETHICS

The zealous pursuit of power by the major political parties of Pakistan has obscured their moral fulcrums. In the face Updated 22 Jul, 2018 10:21am

The language of displacement

Rakhshanda Jalil’s translation of Intizar Husain’s Aagey Samandar Hai does complete justice to the original text Published 03 Apr, 2016 07:15am

COLUMN: A moment in Karachi’s history: a poet’s death remembered

ON the morning of Oct 13, 1970 the body of the former CSP officer and famous poet, Syed Mustafa Zaidi, was found at... Published 01 Dec, 2014 03:54pm

COLUMN: Passion and precarity

IN the autumn of 1992, while conducting field research in Egypt, I attended a talk at the American University in... Published 29 Sep, 2014 04:42pm

COLUMN: On female friendships

THE passage of Muslim Personal Law in 1948, which gave women the right to inheritance under Shari’a, and that of... Published 03 Aug, 2014 07:35am

COLUMN: Women and public space

In delivering a public lecture on Karachi cinema in the 1960s in London a few weeks ago, I was asked a question by... Published 02 Jun, 2014 12:26am

COLUMN: Kolkata and Karachi: thoughts on violence & its aftermath

In Karachi [we need] to imagine a potential space of cooperation and mutual support for people from different gender Published 30 Mar, 2014 08:12am

A century of war, 1914-2014: Pakistan and the Cold War

The following is a column about the legacy of Hasan Nasir which is part of Jan 5th's special issue of Books & Authors. Published 07 Jan, 2014 10:41am

Column: Pakistan and the Cold War

The legacy of Hasan Nasir Updated 05 Jan, 2014 03:18pm

Column: The early years of the progressives

From February 28 to March 6 of 1948, 632 delegates assembled in Calcutta for the second congress of the Communist... Published 27 Oct, 2013 07:06am

Column: Remembering Albert O. Hirschman

By Kamran Asdar Ali Updated 01 Sep, 2013 03:26pm